Director, Enterprise Data Platform

Ankura; Buenos Aires; Híbrido; ARS 181.813.000 - 272.719.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Ankura is seeking a Director to lead the design and delivery of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements in Buenos Aires. This role combines deep technical expertise with delivery ownership, architectural decision-making, and team leadership.

As a trusted advisor, you will ensure platforms are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with business strategy, mentor data engineers, and support pre-sales activities.

Formación

• 8+ years of data engineering leadership required.
• Proven design and delivery of enterprise cloud data platforms.
• Strong experience with ETL/orchestration tools (Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica).
• Expertise with Databricks or Snowflake analytics platforms.
• Ability to estimate, plan, and govern complex delivery programs.
• Solid understanding of data architecture, governance, and security.
• Excellent communication and senior client-facing skills.
• Experience leading multi-team or multi-vendor delivery; English fluent.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own architecture of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements.
• Lead large-scale ETL and data platform implementations using Databricks, Snowflake, and similar.
• Establish reference architectures, delivery standards, engineering best practices.
• Oversee ETL orchestration strategies using Data Factory, Airflow, or enterprise platforms.
• Estimate, plan, and govern delivery across multiple projects and work streams.
• Partner with client stakeholders to align data platform design with business objectives.
• Mentor, coach, and develop data engineers and technical leads.
• Ensure platforms meet scalability, reliability, security and cost efficiency.
• Support pre-sales activities, including solution design and technical estimates.

Conocimientos

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms design

ETL orchestration tools

Databricks / Snowflake

Delivery governance

Data architecture & governance

Client-facing communication

Multi-team / multi-vendor delivery

ML pipelines exposure

Cloud certifications

Herramientas

Data Factory

Airflow

Informatica

Databricks

Snowflake

Descripción del empleo

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview: Ankura's Digital Transformation practice helps clients modernize their organizations by leveraging data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes. Our data engineering and data science experts design and develop enterprise data platforms that unify trusted data and provide the scalable foundation for reporting, advanced analytics, automation, and AI.

Role Overview: We are looking for a Director to help lead the design and delivery of cloud-based data platforms across multiple client engagements. This role combines deep technical expertise with delivery ownership, architectural decision-making, and team leadership. The Director will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring data platforms are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business strategy.

This role is based in Buenos Aires.

This position will be employed via a 3rd party payroll and will be Director level equivalent within Ankura's structure.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the architecture of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements.
• Lead large-scale ETL and data platform implementations using tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, and equivalent technologies.
• Establish reference architectures, delivery standards, and engineering best practices.
• Oversee ETL orchestration strategies using tools such as Data Factory, Airflow, or enterprise ETL platforms.
• Estimate, plan, and govern delivery across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Partner with client stakeholders to align data platform design with business objectives.
• Mentor, coach, and develop data engineers and technical leads.
• Ensure platforms meet expectations for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Support pre-sales activities, including solution design and technical estimates.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade cloud data platforms.
• Deep expertise with ETL / orchestration tools (e.g., Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, or similar).
• Strong experience with analytics and processing platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalents.
• Demonstrated ability to estimate, plan, and govern complex delivery programs.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, governance, and security principles.
• Excellent communication skills and experience in senior, client-facing roles.
• Strong business acumen and results-oriented mindset.
• Preferred to have experience leading multi-team or multi-vendor delivery models.
• Preferred to have exposure to advanced analytics, machine learning pipelines, or real-time processing.
• Cloud or platform certifications (any major provider) is preferred.
• Must be fluent in English #LI-Hybrid #LI-MJ1

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Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise.

Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Delivers, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Value. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.